Port Vale v s Charlton: Visitors find form after flying pig demo

While Port Vale struggled to deal with set pieces at Sheffield United on Saturday, Charlton Athletic were trying to cope with flying pigs.
The Addicks' home game with Coventry City was held up when both sets of supporters threw hundreds of plastic pigs on to the pitch at the Valley in protest at their clubs' respective owners.
Coventry's travelling fans spent large parts of their team's 2-0 win at Vale Park on October 1 chanting against their club's owners SISU for their part in the Sky Blues' decline to the foot of League One.
Meanwhile Charlton fans are no more enamoured with their club's... read more

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Port Vale 1 (Hughes, 64)
Southend 2 (Clohessy, 19, Assombalonga, 31)
March 9 2013: League One
PORT Vale's slump in form during their promotion season continued...